Saturday 26 January 2008

Chocolate chips are distributed Poisson

According to Herbie Lee, an associate professor of applied mathematics and statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Baskin School of Engineering, the numerical distribution of chocolate chips in commercially baked cookies is Poisson!!!

Now thats important news!

1 comment:

Eric Crampton said...

You may well be a Poisson distribution, but I'm less than zero!